Pen tool not working in cs2

Can you help? I cannot get my pen tool to make an active selection. It completes the path, but then when I try to inverse selection, it says no pixels were selected. I am new to this and very frustrated. It will let me select all, but the path area remains inactive. PLEASE HELP!!!!

> It completes the path, but then when I try to inverse selection, it says no pixels were selected
What Phos says is true, but since you say you are getting a selection I will assume you said pen but meant marquee tool or some other selection tool.
Usually you will get the no pixels selected message when you are on a layer that does not have any content. You can see content, but it is on a different layer. Change to the layer with the content in the layer palette, and then you should be able to inverse your selection.

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